Suspender-buckle



(No Model) D. LIPPY.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

' No. 438,892. Patented Oct. 21, 1890.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID LIPPY, OF MANSFIELD, OHIO.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,892, dated October 21, 1890.

I Application filed June 16, 1890. serial No. 355,609. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, DAVID LIPPY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mansfield, in the county of Richland, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in Suspender-buckles; and it has for its object to provide an improved cast-off, which cannot be accidentally disengaged, but which may be readily removed from the other part of the buckle by a movement forward and then a push straight upward. This is the primary object. Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification,and in which Figure 1 is a face view of a portion of a Suspender-end with my improved buckle attached. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same.

Like letters of reference indicatelike parts in both Views.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the buckle proper, which may be of any preferred form, preferably, however, as shown in the drawings, in which the main support of the plates is formed of wire bent into the form shown, the lower wire being bent at its center to form the loop or hook a, as shown in Fig. 2, from which the castoff or triangle B is suspended. The

cast-off or triangle B is formed of a single piece of wire bent into the shape shown with the ends of the wire uppermost and bent outwardly, downwardly, and backward, as shown best in Fig. 2. This peculiar form of the triangle allows limited oscillation of the buckle sidewise, which is an important feature, as it gives comfort to the wearer, and at the same time the triangle cannot he accidentally disengaged from the loop orhook a, Fig.2, of the buckle, it being necessary, in order to disengage the triangle, to first slide it forward, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and then push it straight up while in the inclined position, in which it is shown by dotted lines in said Fig. 2. By no other movement can the triangle be disengaged from the loop or hook at of the buckle proper. The outward bend of the end of the triangle is shown at b, Fig. 1, the downward bend at c, and the backward bend at cl. The hooked ends of the triangle engage the loops of the opposite arms of the loop or hook a, Fig. 2, of the buckle when in use, as shown in full lines in Fig. 2.

What I claim as new is- The combination, with a buckle provided wit-h a loop, of a cast-off formed of a single piece of wire having a loop, and the free ends of which are bent outwardly, upwardly, and backward, and adapted to engage the looped arms of the loop or hook of the buckle, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID LIPPY.

Witnesses:

B. J. BALLIATT, J. E. WILLIs. 

